ActivePerl from ActiveState is the industry-standard, commercial-grade Perl distribution, available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (Solaris, AIX and HP-UX available in Business or Enterprise Edition). Developers worldwide rely on ActivePerls's completeness and ease-of-use, while corporate users protect their infrastructure and stay competitive with quality-assured ActivePerl business solutions.
ActivePerl is 100% compatible with the reference distribution of Perl. Code tested with ActivePerl will run on any Perl installation that has the appropriate extensions installed.
ActiveState also provides business solutions for dynamic languages, including enterprise distributions and OEM licensing, that offer guaranteed stability, expert support, unparalleled quality and cost-efficiency to organizations.

What is new in this release:

For a complete list of changes, see the ActivePerl 5.12 release notes: http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.12/release.html

Requirements:

Mac PowerPC or Intel architectures, Minimum OS X 10.4

Limitations:

ActivePerl Community Edition is free. For OEM and redistribution, you will need to upgrade to ActiveState's Business or Enterprise versions. By downloading ActivePerl Community Edition files, you agree to comply with the terms of use of the ActiveState Community License (found at: http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/license-agreement)